Programming Language incorrectly detected despite correct .gitattributes

[mactsouk]

The repository's Programming Language is being displayed incorrectly on GitHub, despite having a proper .gitattributes file at the root with the following content:

*.go linguist-language=Go
*.1 linguist-documentation
*.md linguist-documentation

Actions taken so far:

• Confirmed .gitattributes is at the root of the default branch (main)
• Confirmed presence of Go source files
• Made trivial commits to trigger re-indexing
• Waited more than 24 hours for GitHub to update language stats

Despite all these steps, the displayed language stats remain incorrect. This appears to be an indexing or caching issue on GitHub's side.

Please investigate and update the language statistics for the repository, or advise on further steps if necessary.

Repository: https://github.com/mactsouk/mGo4th
Related issue: mactsouk/mGo4th#13

[lildude]

Despite all these steps, the displayed language stats remain incorrect. This appears to be an indexing or caching issue on GitHub's side.

Nope. Your .gitattributes isn't considering what is actually being detected as Roff:

Roff:
ch08/dataset/1.5M
ch08/dataset/2.5M

These two files (actually three but the 4.0M file is so big it's not analysed at all) are massive and are having a significant impact on the stats:

$ ls -lh mGo4th/ch08/dataset/
total 43128
-rw-r--r--@ 1 lildude  staff   3.9M 30 Jun 11:52 1.5M
-rw-r--r--@ 1 lildude  staff   6.6M 30 Jun 11:52 2.5M
-rw-r--r--@ 1 lildude  staff    11M 30 Jun 11:52 4.0M
$

You probably want to mark these files as vendored, or generated, or as not detectable.

[mactsouk]

Thank you! It works now!